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Freight Train

Written and Illustrated by Donald Crews
In simple language and brightly colored illustrations, author Donald Crews explains how six cars of...
Pre-K - 3rd
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Eight Days: A Story of Haiti

Written by Edwidge Danticat and Illustrated by Alix Delinois
Junior uses his imagination to keep hope alive after he is trapped for 8 days underneath his...
Pre-K - 3rd
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The Star of Kazan

Written by Eva Ibbotson

Annika is happy living in the servants' quarters of a house owned by three eccentric professors. She...

3rd - 7th
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Martin's Dream Day

Written by Kitty Kelley and Illustrated by Stanley Tretick
The story of the historic March on Washington on August 28, 1963, written specifically for young...
K - 4th
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A Long Way from Chicago

Written by Richard Peck and Illustrated by Yang Hee

Set in the Depression, the book is a series of stories about the adventures Joey Dowdel and his...

3rd - 7th
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I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916

Written by Lauren Tarshis and Illustrated by Scott Dawson

Another book in the "I Survived" series, this one focuses on the shark attacks of 1916. During that...

3rd - 7th
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The Book Thief

Written by Markus Zusak
For 12-year-old Liesel Meminger, books keep her going. Living with her foster parents, Hans and Rosa...
7th - 12th
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Battlesaurus Clash of Empires

Written by Brian Falkner
In this roaring alternative history adventure, dinosaurs from a forbidden world have been turned...
6th - 12th
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Battlesaurus Rampage at Waterloo

Written by Brian Falkner
Fifteen-year-old Willem lives in hiding in a small Belgian village on the edge of the great Sonian...
7th - 9th
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Cinnamon Moon

Written by Tess Hilmo

On the same day as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, 250 miles away in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, there was...

4th - 6th
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John Lincoln Clem: Civil War Drummer Boy (Based on a True Story)

Written by E. F. Abbott
In 1861, nine-year-old Johnny Clem sneaks onto a train filled with men from the 3rd Ohio Union...
3rd - 4th
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Mary Jemison: Native American Captive (Based on a True Story)

Written by E. F. Abbott
Mary Jemison, a fifteen-year-old frontier girl living in Pennsylvania in 1758 during the French and...
3rd - 4th
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Nettie and Nellie Crook: Orphan Train Sisters (Based on a True Story)

Written by E. F. Abbott
Nettie and Nellie Crook are only five years old in 1910 when they are removed from their neglectful...
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Sybil Ludington: Revolutionary War Rider (Based on a True Story)

Written by E. F. Abbott
In 1777, living in what is now New York, Sybil Ludington, her colonel father, and her family are...
3rd - 4th
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Finding Someplace

Written by Patrick and Denise Lewis

Reesie Boone just knows that thirteen is going to be her best year yet-this will be the year she...

4th - 6th
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Gilded Cage

Written by Lucinda Gray
After growing up on a farm in Virginia, Walthingham Hall in England seems like another world to...
7th - 12th
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Blood Red Snow White

Written by Sedgwick and Marcus
There never was a story that was happy through and through. When writer Arthur Ransome leaves his...
10th - 12th
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A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832

Written by Joan W. Blos
A novel about New England between 1830 and 1832, written in the form of a journal by a girl named...
3rd - 7th
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I, Juan de Pareja

Written by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
The story of Juan de Pareja, who was born a slave but became the assistant to the great Spanish...
7th - 12th
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Rifles for Watie

Written by Harold Keith

The story of the Western campaign of the Civil War, fought between the Cherokee Indians and the...

5th - 8th
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Caddie Woodlawn

Written by Carol Ryrie Brink
Based on the life of author Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother, Caddie Woodlawn is about adventurous...
3rd - 7th
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

Written by Jean Lee Latham
Based on the life of Nathaniel Bowditch, the story focuses on his determination of learn the ins...
7th - 10th
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Johnny Tremain

Written by Esther Forbes and Illustrated by Michael McCurdy

The story of Johnny Tremain, a 14-year-old boy who becomes a horse boy for The Boston Observer and a...

5th - 7th
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King of the Wind

Written by Marguerite Henry

A fictionalized account of the Godolphin Arabian, known as Sham, an ancestor of the modern...

3rd - 7th

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